Plus: Obama’s year-in-review: JOHN NICHOLS of The Nation comments – and reviews the pros and cons of the health care bill, scheduled to pass the Senate Dec. 24 at 8am.

Also: KATHA POLLITTis best known for her political columns in The Nation and her personal essays in The New Yorker, but she’s also an award-winning poet – her poems are published in The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Atlantic, and many other places. Now she has a new book of poetry out – The Mind-Body Problem. We’ll talk about poetry and politics, and she will read some of my favorites. (originally broadcast 7/29/09)

Trump Watch

Stories about Trump has actually done, not just what he’s tweeted.
Also: reports on The Resistance.
The Trump Watch podcast is the online version of “Trump Watch” on KPFK radio, hosted by Jon Wiener and broadcast live most Thursdays at 3pm at 90.7FM in LA, also streaming live at www.kpfk.org:
New episodes posted every Thursday evening.